[-] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago

It weirdly felt like a Venom movie, and what made it even more weird - it came out around the same time as the actual Venom movie, and even the main hero looked somewhat like a discount version of Tom Hardy😅

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I wasn't arguing for free will, I was arguing against your argument, and, as you can see, it is flawed.

When it comes to free will - in a situation where you have to make a choice it doesn't matter that post-factum you can say that you couldn't have chosen otherwise due to internal and external factors, what matters is that in the moment you still have to make that choice, and no one (oftentimes not even you) can really predict the outcome.

Also, determinism is flawed simply because quantum mechanics exists, which is decidedly indeterministic and deals with probabilities, and there are phenomenons where it affects things on a macro scale.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The problem is with you definition of want. You've formulated it based on the conclusion you've wanted to reach - that there is no other reason to do things, not based on what you actually think it is. That's why I asked for your definition - to try to find a counter example, without you moving the goalpost and saying that that's actually a want as well.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If by "want" you mean "everything you do that you don't have to" then your post is kinda useless. Yeah, you do things you have to and things you don't have to, that's obvious, cause there is no other category of actions.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The point was to illustrate a counter-example to your coffee example and that you can control (at least some) of your wants (which you previously said that one can't do). I would be curious to hear your definition of want (and have to, for that matter). You seem to be using it as an umbrella term that covers everything from physical urges to something a person thinks would subjectively benefit them.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It still was your choice, people regularly go against the societal norms and desires imposed from the outside. Like, I never started smoking, although both of my parents and a lot of my peers did.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I mean, you chose to taste it again when you knew you didn't like the taste. That's how acquired tastes work, you start liking something after repeated exposure.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

if you ignore the scales, this could be a bizarre Mad Max chase scene

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago

And what if someone dragged your kid along to a crime, then got themself shot and your kid now has to spend basically their whole life in jail?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I think they've meant world's view, not worldview

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Don't leave this dude home alone again, he comes up with some weird stuff

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